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Barrier-Free Design Guidelines

Published by City of Hamilton

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Type: Guide
Published by: City of Hamilton
For: designer
Building types: All building types
Pages: 233
Agencies: Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities
Covers note: The file's text layer is unreadable (its fonts extract as symbols), so no heading can be checked against it and none is listed. The pages were read by eye: the contents run from Introduction, Universal Design Principles and Guidelines, and Scope, Application and Enforcement through Physical, Visual and Audible Accessibility to Special Facilities and Areas and Appendices.

Overview

The City of Hamilton's Barrier-Free Design Guidelines, version 1.1 of 2006, prepared for Public Works by R. F. Lintack Architect with the Advisory Committee for Persons with Disabilities, revising the City's 1994 Barrier-Free Design Standards. A 233-page manual for City-owned, leased or operated facilities, parks and infrastructure, it covers universal design principles, scope and definitions, then physical accessibility from ramps, doors and elevators to washrooms and amenities, visual and audible accessibility, and special facilities from arenas and pools to transit facilities.

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